create something beautiful

Last night I attended the presentation of Geren Ford’s Spring 2009 collection for New York Fashion Week, covering model Laura (aka. Texas) backstage for all of her prep and then briefly checking out the actual presentation before dashing out. An edited batch of the photos will be posted on New York Fashion Week, covering model Laura (aka. Texas) backstage for all of her prep and then briefly checking out the actual presentation before dashing out. An edited batch of the photos will be posted on NYLONmag.com sometime today, but be sure to check out the full un-edited set on my flickr account for lots of pretty photos like these:

I made this last Friday for our weekly Freebie Friday giveaway. And today I noticed it had been linked to on Confessions of a Casting Director (where we got the AH-mazing shirt from)!!

LOVE IT!
I wish I could find graphics I’ve made linked to on other sites!

With the death of Polaroids on the horizon, more and more people seem to be becoming nostalgic for the ancient discolored little instamatic images. And I’m completely ok with that. I’ll be the first to admit I wish I’d hopped on the trend before it became campy cool to carry around an SX-70 to parties. Now I just feel like a bit of a tool doing so and instead bring mine around to places like the beach or random camping trips (images to follow someday from my current forays into the use of various slightly vintage film cameras of varying formats).

Today I stumbled across another Polaroid-focused blog that I’m now in love with and just have to share. It’s called Tokyo Polaroids and I have no idea what the rhyme or reason behind the site is since it’s all in Japanese. The only explanation I can find is the tagline up top “Five polaroids are better than four.” But I do know there are some pretty great shots on here, a lot of them involving cats oddly enough. And I can’t wait to check back on the site periodically to see what new images they update it with.

Then of course there’s My Polaroid Blog, which I already fell in love with several months ago because of her oh so pretty, dreamy images she manages to capture.

*Sigh*
So many pictures of Paris. It makes me want to go back desperately.

Brooklyn + Philadelphia + adorable jewelry with a statement = Brookadelphia.

I am super glad I stumbled across this company. They caught my eye on the Etsy homepage with a recently added gold “vote.” necklace.

Aside from this cute necklace (also available in silver by the way), there are earrings like these:

and necklaces like these:

So really, what’s NOT to love about them?

I made this. A couple days/weeks/months ago, I don’t remember when exactly. Or what feelings/thoughts I was having at the time I felt compelled to do it. But I like it. So I tore it out of my notebook and framed it. I hope you like it too. Or can decipher it or find some extremely interesting reasoning for its existence to help me explain it to people who see it across the room in my apartment and ask “What’s that scribble?”